Daniel Lloyd Davey was born to Susan Janet Moore and Lawrence John
Davey in
HertfordHertford and is the oldest child of four. He has two sisters,
Amanda (b. 1975) and Rachel (b. 1978), and a brother, Philip (b.
1981).

He married his wife Toni on 31 October 2005, in
IpswichIpswich . The two
have a daughter, Luna Scarlett (b. 8 February 1999).

CAREER

Dani Filth's present and primary band is Cradle of Filth. He also has
been lending his voice to the band
Devilment , a side project that has
taken off into a full-time job in between Cradle records. His earliest
bands were Carnival Fruitcake, The Lemon Grove Kids, PDA and Feast on
Excrement. He named
Judas PriestJudas Priest , Venom , Emperor , Destruction ,
SlayerSlayer ,
Iron MaidenIron Maiden , Sabbat , Misfits , Paradise Lost and Tim Burton
's
The Nightmare Before ChristmasThe Nightmare Before Christmas among his major influences. At the
age of eighteen, Filth took up a job at a Chinese restaurant. He later
chose his career in music over an internship at a newspaper, although
his "Dani's Inferno" column ran for two years in
Metal Hammer during
the late 1990s.

He has co-written and released
The Gospel of Filth with Gavin
Baddeley . The book, which Filth describes as an "occult study,"
features contributions from
Clive BarkerClive Barker ,
Christopher LeeChristopher Lee and Ingrid
Pierson. He had been accused many times of being a Satanist , but has
denounced such rumours, claiming instead to being "more of a
Luciferian ."

Away from Cradle, Filth appeared on the
Roadrunner United CD in 2005
(contributing vocals to "Dawn of a Golden Age"), and his high profile
has also led to a handful of film and television roles. In 2003, he
provided the voice of the eponymous main character in the
feature-length animation Dominator .

He was ranked 95 in the
Hit Parader 's Top 100 Metal Vocalist of All
Time.

Filth recorded the song "(She's) The Mother of Tears" with Claudio
Simonetti and Simonetti's band Daemonia, for the soundtrack of Dario
Argento 's film
The Mother of Tears .

In 2000, Filth appeared in the movie
Cradle of FearCradle of Fear as The Man, a
deranged psychopath taking revenge on his father's persecutors. The
film also starred David McEwen, Edmund Dehn,
Emily Booth , Eileen Daly
, Rebecca Eden and Emma Rice. A homage to the cult Amicus anthology
Asylum ,
Cradle of FearCradle of Fear unfolds four stories all linked by the thread
of an incarcerated child killer wreaking vengeance on those
responsible for his imprisonment. The movie's tagline on some posters
was, "It's not if they die... It's how..."